The Plain Dealer

By: Ginger Christ

Federal funding for a program that provides health insurance coverage to roughly 200,000 children in Ohio and 9 million across the U.S. expired more than a month ago, and Congress still hasn’t enacted legislation to restore funding.

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Children are eligible for the program if their families do not qualify for Medicaid and make up to 211 percent of the federal poverty level (roughly $43,086 for a family of three), according to the Georgetown University Health Policy Institute Center for Children and Families. Typically, these are families that are above the financial threshold for Medicaid eligibility.

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